Strip 242 -- First Seen: 2009-08-18
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QV on a short break

QUANTUM VIVE is taking a break for a few weeks, as we prepare for Part 2 of the Novo Palermo story, and also for a Kickstarter campaign for Part 1, which will start in September.

In the meantime, Not-Safe.Space will continue, as a murder mystery begins and the relationship between Eithne and Diana develops in unexpected directions.

Not-Safe.Space is a NSFW strip but more than half the pages are SFW so I've set those to *not* require a Patreon membership. Readers should be able to follow the story without seeing the NSFW pages. If I've done this right.

Kickstarter successful and closed

The Kickstarter campaign for Not-Safe.Space Chapter 3 concluded successfully on April 21, and Scott extended the time allowed for late pledges until May 19.

Books have been ordered from the printer and Scott will be spending the next week or so setting up and sending the PDF files to those who asked for them.

(There are still six of you who have not responded to the survey asking for e-mail and snail-mail addresses, he'll do the best he can.)

Thanks to all for supporting this Kickstarter!

The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Sort of wide panel. We the Stealth Ship being “absorbed” through the skin. In this shot, the ship is laying flat on the airskin surface, and is also enveloped by the airskin, as if encased in a clear-plastic cocoon.

Caption: The Little Prince's state-of-the-art air skin can absorb objects without losing atmosphere.

Caption (2): When the ship contacts the airskin, it envelopes the craft, then recedes on the atmosphere side to release it.

Panel 2
Close-up of Drenkowski in the Stealth Ship flight cabin.

Drenkowski: Now let's see how this baby handles in atmo.

Panel 3
Full-width panel. Drenkowski takes the Stealth Ship through a barrel-roll (speed lines indicating the maneuver, left-to-rightward in the panel). We can see Damocles many kilometers away, in the upper distance (we're looking at a somewhat upward angle but not straight up).

Drenkowski: Suh-weet!

Drenkowski (2): Commander Drenkowski to aerodrome, ETA 1 – ah – make that 2 centimes.